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In fact, I'm convinced AP is doing psyops, generally. And this newsbit has some of the characteristics of their typical psyops writing techniques. (For instance, "one security expert says...". Why not name him or her? They often use this technique on Hugo Chavez--"his critics say...," no quotes, no attribution. Straight from the Bush State Department, I suspect.)
So, the questions to ask are: Where did this newsbit come from? (There is no attribution at all, for this info.) Why did the FBI release or leak it? Who released or leaked it? (An FBI "spokesman"? It doesn't say.) Is it part of a general psyops campaign to make us nervous and fearful? Is it part of a general psyops campaign to inure us to government incompetence (make us give up on government)? Or does it have a more specific purpose? Is it part of a "sting"? Are they building a case against someone? Did the FBI itself do the hacking, and next we'll see some innocent party indicted--someone the Bushites, or some corpo, wants to "get"?
The article is untrustworthy--and highly suspicious--on its face. No source--not even a vaguely identified anonymous source (anonymous because they 'are not authorized to speak about this investigation'). Nothing. No clue.
The last paragraph is interesting, because it points to some strange goings on at FEMA: "The voicemail system was recently installed, and is a traditional corporate phone network used by thousands of companies and government offices. Many companies are moving to an upgraded version."
All the goddamn money the Bush junta is spending on "national security" and they recently installed an antiquated, hackable phone system for FEMA, our emergency agency for national disasters?!!! And this critically important agency is furthermore using a system that is also used by "thousands" of private companies?
"Many companies" are "upgrading"--but not FEMA?!
Maybe it's a whistleblower, trying to point to yet more corrupt contracting by the Bush junta, in critical systems.
Not likely from the Associated Pukes, though. They are really bad dudes. More likely, some humongous telecom wants to upgrade FEMA's phone system. And this may be the employer of "one security expert" (who says FEMA's system is "low tech" and 10-15 years outmoded).
Ah, yes. I think I've hit it. Some big corpo is really pissed off that some other big corpo got the contract for the "recently installed" FEMA phone system, and is either getting revenge (calling it outmoded), and hacked into it maliciously (and fed that info to the FBI), or is seeking to damage the corpo who got the contract in order to get that contract cancelled, so they can get the contract. Unknown: whether the FBI is corrupt on this. AP very carefully avoids attributing the story to anyone--even "anon"--and just says, "The FBI isinvestigating...". How do we know that's even true? But, more importantly, are the FBI agents who are investigating it, in cahoots with the corpo that hacked the other corpo?
One final question: Why on earth would anybody who wanted to hack phone calls to the Middle East use an important government agency phone system, or any government agency phone system? If they can hack, they can hack into some obscure, unimportant, private company phone system, and not get so easily red-flagged as possible terrorists. The reason could be billing (easier to deepsix gov't invoices?). But, really, it seems awfully STUPID. You want to get yourself in trouble? Hack a big U.S. government phone system and make numerous calls to the Middle East!
However, if you were one big corpo trying to damage another big corpo, it makes more sense. ('My god, that corpo's system is wide open to terrorists!')
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